" A worker near the Seine River in Paris France in 1925 "
by Jules DALLET (1876 - 1970)
Original pastel drawing made in 1925,
handsigned by the artist.
Size : 46 x 54 cm
Jules Dallet
born January 4, 1876 in Paris and died February 19, 1970 in Auray, is a French painter.
In 1891, aged just 15, Jules Dallet entered the National School of Decorative Arts.
He also learns architecture and construction; he received an award in architectural drawing in 1892.
In 1902, he was received at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. He trained with the painter Fernand Cormon workshop professor who had among others as pupils Emile Bernard, Henri Matisse, John Peter Russel, Chaïm Soutine, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent Van Gogh.
At the age of 27, Jules Dallet participated in the first edition of the 1903 Fall Salon Petit Palais. He exhibited again the following years at the Grand Palais.
He was mobilized on August 2, 1914. On the front, the artist made multiple sketches of soldiers. It depicts the soldier at rest or at work digging trenches and shaping tools during long periods of waiting. Some sketches served as illustrations for a series of postcards published by the Army.
Wounded, Jules Dallet was evacuated on July 30, 1915; he returned to the forehead once healed and was decorated.
Jules Dallet created in 1920 with an associate a graphic design workshop, specializing in industrial drawing with Chinese ink and the layout of luxury catalogs for department stores. They call it by their two names: Dal-Cour. Dallet and Courcier draw their inspiration from Art Nouveau. They also have recourse to medieval themes which were very popular. At the same time, Jules Dallet continued to paint and participated in Parisian artistic life.
He settled in Brittany from 1939 where he died at the age of 94.